Download YouTube videos with Tooble

There's plenty of YouTube applications out there, but walking around the Macworld show floor a mere ten days ago, I came across Tooble: another (free) application that allows you to download your favourite YouTube videos to your Mac. Now, before people shout-off that Google could feasibly break the app by changing URLs, the developers were quick to point out that the application uses the fully-supported and entirely-ToS-valid YouTube and gData APIs to grab the videos.

The software, written (incredibly) by high-school students is going to remain free for the YouTube version. There's also mention of a paid-for version supporting other sites currently slated to appear later this year (Metacafé being one site mentioned) along with a Windows version too.

I've been playing with Tooble since the show, and I've found it incredibly reliable. Testing it both when downloading 40-minute epics such as the Steve Jobs Macworld Boston 1997 Keynote, or the truly insane -- don't try this at home -- skiing down Europe's longest escalator, the application handled them both with aplomb.

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tang

Hey Web2 Delight has released a second Beta is it? Check out:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/technology/video_photo/prweb769884.htm

March 13 2008 at 4:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Istvan

I would like to suggest also http://www.tubedownloader.info

It is a free online tool so you don't have to download and install any software on your computer. On the site you can find also detailed instructions and a video-tutorial.

March 12 2008 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

macnme

Tooble is nice. But there's another application Web2 Delight. You can download videos and photos from YouTube, BlipTV, Veoh, Eyespot, Flickr, Picasa, Webshots, Photobucket etc, on to your Mac and on iPod/ iPhones. These people were at MacWorld this year. Check www.web2delight.com

February 11 2008 at 11:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BabyGotMac

Hey, Tubular has updated and issued a public beta:
http://tubularapp.com
http://babygotmac.com/a/tubular-is-no-longer-vaporware/

February 04 2008 at 3:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dzzpp

Now I'm using PQ FLV Downloader from http://www.pqdvd.com/download-youtube-videos-tool.html. Its download speed is the fastest in the softwares which I even used.

February 02 2008 at 3:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pat

Here is a nice web site where you can search, view and download YouTube videos.

http://www.ilikeyoutube.com/

Enjoy.

January 31 2008 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rednimer

http://savingyoutube.com is a great site for saving youtube and other video sites like MetaCafe to your computer. Just put in the url of the video and save it to your computer

January 29 2008 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Derek Guder

I gotta say that I much prefer Tube TV (http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv/). it's got a few more options and allows you to tweak a few things - plus it's browser-like, so you can preview the YouTube videos in the same program without having to flip back to another program to see if it's actually what you want to download. It seems to do everything Tooble does (short of the auto-adding videos to iTunes).

With Tooble, on the other hand, it took me a bit to figure out where it was saving these files (usersmovies) and now it's not responding while converting a bunch of random test videos I gave it. Seems to be chugging along, but it's eaten up all the memory/CPU it can and is beachballin' away.

January 28 2008 at 11:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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A strolling player

Seconding TubeTV. I haven't tried Tooble, but TubeTV is good enough I don't need to. Being able to watch and even search YouTube in the app itself is a great help, as I often have requests from friends "hey download this youtube for me" with a URL, and I'd rather not have to open both my browser and my YouTube ripper.

January 29 2008 at 10:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Big John

This got a mention on MacBreak Weekly this past week and for every video I tried, it failed. They were mostly US political speeches. While I appreciate the fact it was made by kids, it doesn't do any better of a job than any other of the myriad of YouTube tools out there.

January 28 2008 at 6:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tice

I guess the easiest way is with Safari Stand: Just Command-click the Video (when it's completely loaded) and save it.

http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

January 28 2008 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply